Word: canaan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They worked in teams of two or three. One team consisted of Sergeant Graham Johnston, ex-jockey from New Canaan, Conn., Sergeant Paul Todd, of Kalamazoo, and a Chinese boy interpreter called "Virgil." When the sergeants found it difficult to get cooperation they promoted themselves to colonels. Chinese soldiers willingly helped the "colonels." Chinese civilians, impressed by their rank, gave them special food and baths...
...most Timesmen, Strunsky is little known. He inhabits a paneled office on the Times building's hushed, neo-Gothic tenth floor, sacred to editorial writers and the library, and referred to by reporters in the bustling city room on the third floor as "Heaven." He summers in New Canaan, Conn., winters on Fifth Avenue, lives almost wholly for his work...
...short, dark, calm man of 40.* Mai-Sachme made Joseph an overseer. Into the isolated life of genial Jailer Mai-Sachme, who was like an intelligent modern officer serving in a frontier post, Joseph brought a breath of the great world of Memphis and Thebes, the wild outland of Canaan...
Bartlett, N. H., 10 inches, skiing fair; Canaan, N. H., no snow, no skiing; Cannon Mountain, Franconia, N. H., 18 inches, fair to poor; Dartmouth region, 3 inches, skiing poor; Intervale, N. H., 3 inches, skiing poor; Jackson, N. H., 8 inches, skiing fair; Laconia, N. H., no snow, no skiing...
...Cannon mountain, skiing is poor, with from nine to 20 inches of settled powder, and the rest of Franconia Notch has only five inches or less. Canaan, Bristol, Plymouth, Tamworth, and Wood stock, Vt all report good skiing on from six to eight inches of cover...